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Emerging Leaders 2008: Group J

IFRT: Brainstorm for the use of new technologies to facilitate IFRT's goals.

Description

The Emerging Leaders team will become familiar with the IFRT, our goals (education for and advocacy of intellectual freedom), resources, membership and audience. They will brainstorm the use of new technologies (for example blogs, rss feeds, chat, wiki's, virtual realities, and anything else that they discover) to facilitate IFRT's goals.

Expected Outcomes

The team will prepare a report documenting the new technologies that they explored including an analyzed, prioritized list of practical ways in which we might use these new technologies to get out our message. Their report will be a key element in the work of our newly reconstituted Communications Committee.

Group members

Stella Farris

Melanie Maksin

Jenny McCraw

Lauren Pressley

Ellen Shave

Project Plan

1. Review the description of your project. Identify the key elements or components of the project.

Analysis of each of web 2.0 tools

Prioritized list of technology

Report on web 2.0 tools using a web 2.0 tool

2. Specify the goals of the project. Describe what you want to accomplish.

To evaluate tools and get IFRT to a point where they can pick the ones they want and have the tools required to set it up

3. Who are the customers of this project?

IFRT communications committee

4. What are the deliverables for the customers? What will be produced?

Report (and list) documenting new technology

Data from survey

Poster for Annual

5. List the specifications for each deliverable. What criteria are customers likely to use to determine their satisfaction with a deliverable?

Report (and list) documenting new technology

Something that puts the committee in a good position to decide and to know the resources they'd need to have in place

In a good position to put technology into place

Data from survey

it's a bonus!

Poster for Annual

If people show up to look, not laugh, etc. :)

6. List the activities or or steps to follow to achieve the goals and produce the deliverables?

Develop a list of tools we think are interesting

Create and distribute survey for IFRT member's technology use.

Familiarize ourselves with IFRT goals

Study the tools

Writing the report

7. What is the desired time frame? When do you hope to complete the project?